Daily Dose of Heaven: Prayer, Faith and A New Part of The Family Business | S6 E22

Mary Alessi [00:00:00]:
God won't give us great ideas. We have good ideas that the Lord could give us, but really great lasting ideas usually require others to help come along and help us carry it. Well, hello again, and welcome to another episode of the Family Business with the Alessis. I am Mary Alessi. And Steve's not joining us today, but we do have some special guests. Well, one particular special guest, Stephanie, you've heard from many times, but we're so excited to bring this podcast to you today. It's something new. It's something exciting for us.

Mary Alessi [00:00:40]:
Not new for our guests, but something that we're merging together to just add to this podcast experience, and we're super, super stoked about it. Do we still say stoked? Is that still a word you can use? Yes. Okay. Good. Because I'm saying it. Something else we're stoked about is all of our merchandise. Did you know that we have actually linked the ability to buy all of our merchandise right there on our YouTube page? You just can click. You'll see it right there at the top.

Mary Alessi [00:01:02]:
Al and I was watching our podcast the other day on YouTube, and I saw it right there, all our t shirts. I'm like, that's what he makes me say. There they are. And I can get a small or a medium or a large or an extra large. There they are. If you've not gotten any of our family business merchandise, please do. Let's get the family out there.

Alison Delamota [00:01:19]:
Yes.

Mary Alessi [00:01:20]:
Wear it on your person because that's what it's all about is having strong families, And we share that every day on this podcast or every week and, hopefully, you're sharing this podcast with everybody you know. We have our superfans and, we've got some great people that are subscribing. We wanna continue to grow that base. And speaking of growing that base Mhmm. It's all about that base. Actually, we are just thrilled to have you here, Allison. And, this is something that, you know, when you look at your story as to what you've accomplished in the last 3 years, you said, it's pretty impressive.

Stephanie Muiña [00:01:56]:
Yeah.

Mary Alessi [00:01:56]:
And I would love for Stephanie and you to kinda take over here because you guys have been working on this now for a little while. I get to sit and listen, but also ask questions as we go along with the exciting podcast that you've had and you've helped so many. I mean, we're gonna talk about the numbers, the people that are following you, the subscribers you have. But welcome to our podcast team, miss Allison.

Alison Delamota [00:02:15]:
Thank you for having me. I'm excited to be here.

Mary Alessi [00:02:17]:
We're so glad that you're here. And, Stephanie, I just want you to kinda take it away as well and interview her. We're we're just gonna dive in here and share with our listeners the incredible thing that's happening right now.

Stephanie Muiña [00:02:29]:
Sure. So we are at the beginning of a really fun journey with Alison. But before we get into any of those details, we have to hear your story of how you built what you built. You are the creator, the director, the editor, the producer of my morning devotional podcast, and you have over a 1000000 downloads from that how many? 2.6. 2,600,000 download downloads of your My Morning Devotional podcast. Maybe some of our listeners have actually listened to your podcast in the morning because it's Monday through Friday, and it's a 5 minute prayer every single morning. And you just pumped out these prayers every day, but it grew way beyond what you expected. So tell us your story.

Stephanie Muiña [00:03:13]:
We'd love to hear what it was that got you to make it. What was the idea behind it? What was your goal behind it? And then what's led us to here today?

Alison Delamota [00:03:21]:
Of course. Well, I started the show back in 2020, in the middle of the pandemic early on in the pandemic, actually. To backtrack a little bit, in October of 2019, I was in a place of my life where I was trying to start up a baking business and I was really busy.

Mary Alessi [00:03:39]:
Which, by the way, she makes the best yeast rolls, the best brownies, and the best cookies you've ever had. I don't care who they are. Yes. I don't know what this magic is that she wields, but the best continues. So sorry.

Alison Delamota [00:03:49]:
Thank you. Well, I was trying to start that, and, it was time consuming. And I had actually I started coming to this church in 2000 sixteen, and I took a season. I found another church that I thought was my home church at that time of my life, and what I quickly realized was that prayer was not important in my life anymore. I didn't have the connections that I had here. I didn't have the family that I had here. And in that, I was I it was in my spirit to start being or being held accountable myself for my own prayer time.

Stephanie Muiña [00:04:18]:
Mhmm.

Alison Delamota [00:04:19]:
So what I did, because I'm the kind of person that I need help from other people to keep myself accountable

Mary Alessi [00:04:25]:
Oh, yeah. We all do. Totally.

Alison Delamota [00:04:26]:
If I tell myself I'm going on the Peloton, I have to tell my husband because my husband will make sure I get on the Peloton.

Mary Alessi [00:04:31]:
Get on the Peloton. We get it. We get it.

Alison Delamota [00:04:33]:
So I started, doing emails, and I I put it on my Instagram. Hey. I I'm gonna be writing emails with a a daily prayer. The salt method, scripture observation application prayer. And that email list grew from 30 to a 100 people from October to about March. When the pandemic hit, I had 3 different people ask me if I was gonna take it to an audio format. And when the 3rd person asked, I felt like that was confirmation, and I figured out how to throw up a a podcast within a month. I didn't know anything.

Alison Delamota [00:05:01]:
I didn't know what mic I needed. I didn't know how to get music, but I figured it out.

Mary Alessi [00:05:05]:
It's incredible.

Alison Delamota [00:05:06]:
Yeah. And I started June 1st, and I just never stopped. I started without the idea of ending. Yeah. And when you start a podcast, that that you don't even think about that. What can it become? And in my 1st month, it was it was slow to start. I didn't have a huge following or anything like that. Maybe I think it was, like, 3,000 downloads total.

Alison Delamota [00:05:28]:
It took about 4 or 5 months to hit that 10,000 download mark. And before I knew it, I was in the hundreds of thousands every month. Jeez. And it grew so quickly, and I had people reaching out from all over the world. The Philippines was my 2nd largest country listening. Crazy. I have people in Australia, people in South America, people in South Africa, and it became a global community. Yeah.

Alison Delamota [00:05:51]:
And it was beautiful, and it was my biggest honestly, one of the largest honors of my life was to do that. At many times, I felt like I wasn't equipped because this is just me, my own prayers. I was keeping myself accountable, and then I found other people who needed prayer every single morning. And the point of it was 5 minutes. We were gonna get through scripture. We were gonna get through some sort of observation for the day and then end in prayer. And that was my goal, to make sure I was at least connecting with the spirit once a day. And, of course, you know, you talk to him here and there, but when do you have the time to sit down and open the bible on a daily basis?

Stephanie Muiña [00:06:26]:
And a

Alison Delamota [00:06:27]:
lot of the people who listen are either moms or they're students at school Mhmm. Or even grandmothers. And I have this huge, diverse audience, which was also so nice because different walks of life, my messages every morning, I knew that. So I I always made a very blanket so that people from all walks of life could could connect and can listen. And what I found in that was a digital family, which was amazing Crazy. And something that I didn't know how to manage by myself. So well, I did and I didn't. To that to that, when it got to the size that it did, the prayer requests that were coming in

Stephanie Muiña [00:07:09]:
Yep. Yep.

Alison Delamota [00:07:10]:
They were heavy. Some of them were heavy. Absolutely. And and I knew I needed more help in that. And so, at one point, Manny and I said, well, we need to come back to a church that's gonna help me. Right. And so when we got back to Metro, that's actually when, the exponential growth happened and the exponential growth in my life too. And my listeners said they're with me for the last three and a half years.

Alison Delamota [00:07:31]:
So they saw me and Manny date. They saw me start a business. They saw me close a business. They saw me, come back to this church. They saw me grow a family here. They saw me get married. Manny got baptized. Him.

Alison Delamota [00:07:45]:
We bought a house. It was really exciting, and they got to witness all of these different seasons of my life. And then that leads me to the last season that I walked through, which was in October, when Manny and I had a a miscarriage. Yeah. And, in that time, it got really heavy. Yeah. Really, really heavy to show up every single night to record an episode. And I'm talking about 1 o'clock in the morning recording because I could not go to sleep if the episode was not recorded.

Alison Delamota [00:08:12]:
Sure. Yeah. And that night when we found out that, the baby didn't have a heartbeat anymore, Steph, you were at my house.

Mary Alessi [00:08:20]:
Yeah.

Alison Delamota [00:08:20]:
And when you guys left, guess what? I had to move

Mary Alessi [00:08:22]:
on to report. Yeah. Yeah.

Alison Delamota [00:08:24]:
And that was hard. Sure. Yeah. And that month was hard, and the next month was hard. And I decided at at that point that, it was time that the podcast ended because I needed time to heal and time to pray by myself and not just for everybody. And the audience was extremely gracious. Everybody understood. I had maybe 40 women reach out to me that day.

Stephanie Muiña [00:08:47]:
Oh my goodness.

Alison Delamota [00:08:48]:
They had all walked through something similar.

Stephanie Muiña [00:08:50]:
Jeez. That's incredible.

Alison Delamota [00:08:52]:
So a beautiful community, and they all understood Christmas day was our last episode together. Now come the New Year, I just felt it in my heart that the show couldn't have just ended. Right. So I asked Mori, and I Mori asked to leave it up to you. And, you know, would you be willing to take over the show? Right. There are so many people who listen, and they couldn't find somewhere else to go. Right? Mhmm. They all came up to me.

Alison Delamota [00:09:17]:
You know? Hey. Do you have something else? I I can't find another podcast. I don't where do I go? And I can't give my stamp of approval to someone else Right. If I haven't listened to their episodes.

Mary Alessi [00:09:28]:
Well, let me just interject too because what's so brilliant about what you did is the fact the timeliness of it and the simplicity of it and the nondenominational spirit of it. Yeah. It's word. It's strong, very, grounded in God's word, which as we talked about even before we started this podcast is a piece we wanna make sure you're part of our church family and we are all of like spirit. We come in the same spirit. You you're drawn to Metro because you agree with what we agree with.

Alison Delamota [00:09:56]:
Yeah.

Mary Alessi [00:09:56]:
You know, we're all drinking from the same pool, and we like this water. Yeah. So that is what's what comes through your podcast. So you it's scary to say, I'm gonna hand this off and you're not gonna hear from me when they really are because the Bible talks about kindred spirits

Stephanie Muiña [00:10:13]:
Yeah.

Mary Alessi [00:10:14]:
Like spirits, which is what we are. We're all of the same spirit. So the brilliant part of what what you've built is it has that spirit that's drawn 2.6 people Yeah. With the same like spirit, which is only God can do, only his word can do Yeah.

Stephanie Muiña [00:10:31]:
For sure.

Mary Alessi [00:10:31]:
With that argument, without opinion, and with without division and conflict over theology. We are that's not what we're into. That's not what your your devotional's been about. It's just been about taking time to have a quick devotion with the Lord before your day gets started. Yeah. Yeah. There's not much out there that replicates that.

Alison Delamota [00:10:50]:
No. Right?

Stephanie Muiña [00:10:51]:
So it really is Without getting argumentative about a topic, without responding to a topic. This is just a theory. Prayer. Mhmm.

Mary Alessi [00:10:58]:
It's just the word and prayer. It's not the topic is Jesus Yeah. Spending time with him. So continue.

Alison Delamota [00:11:04]:
And in your daily life.

Mary Alessi [00:11:06]:
Every day.

Alison Delamota [00:11:06]:
Every day. Yeah. That's it. Yeah. So when when I kept getting those messages, well, where else am I gonna send them?

Mary Alessi [00:11:13]:
Right.

Alison Delamota [00:11:13]:
So why not send them to my pastors? Mhmm. Yeah. And the reality is that they know your voice because on a Sunday, when I would hear a sermon and I'd have to go home that night Yeah. And record an episode

Stephanie Muiña [00:11:24]:
Yeah.

Alison Delamota [00:11:24]:
The first thing on my head was what I just listened to and how I how can I apply that for my week? Yep. That's what church is. Right? We're coming together, finding a community, and then also sharpening yourself.

Mary Alessi [00:11:35]:
Yeah.

Alison Delamota [00:11:35]:
Yeah. And so they already understand the voice of this church because it's the voice that sits in my heart. That's right. These are my prayers. And, I was so happy. I'm so honored when you guys said yes because it's a a huge undertaking. Yeah. In that middle of the transition, I explored the idea of handing it off to other people Yeah.

Alison Delamota [00:11:54]:
In the influencer space, and it didn't work out. And it didn't work out because I think that God knew what the future was gonna be.

Stephanie Muiña [00:12:04]:
Yeah. You know, it's beautiful because we are so familiar with having huge ideas that grow out. They they outweigh what you could carry, so you have to share it and you have to share the weight with the family. Yeah. We are we do that all the time.

Mary Alessi [00:12:19]:
Yeah. Absolutely.

Stephanie Muiña [00:12:20]:
I can't do Metro Life Worship without my mom. Right. I can't do it without Alan helping us. My my Gabby cannot do the youth without my brother helping her. Like, we completely understand that feeling of this I can't carry this by myself, and you shouldn't. Mhmm. You should never have to.

Mary Alessi [00:12:38]:
And That's exactly right.

Stephanie Muiña [00:12:39]:
You and your husband, we said this a couple weeks ago. You guys have this gift on you where you think of ideas

Mary Alessi [00:12:46]:
Mhmm.

Stephanie Muiña [00:12:46]:
That are greater than what you both can carry together.

Alison Delamota [00:12:50]:
Yeah.

Stephanie Muiña [00:12:50]:
And you have favor on your life. You start an idea. You apply your mind to it. You build it, and it grows to become something so huge. And it's such a gift that now we get to come and partner with you guys and carry the weight and and take it forward and bring it to completion, but it it starts because you guys have these incredible favor filled ideas

Mary Alessi [00:13:14]:
Yes. They do.

Stephanie Muiña [00:13:15]:
That are pure that are just pure. That's right. And it's it's so cool to come and partner with you on stuff like that, and we're so familiar with this kind of routine. It's like Yeah. Help me, please. I need to carry this, and we know exactly how to do it. It it's part of being in ministry together.

Alison Delamota [00:13:31]:
Yeah. And, with that, it it's you guys know the the flow of it. You've been on the show a couple times. You've been on the show once. Pastor Chris was on the show for an entire week when he released his clickbait book. So, I mean, you just kinda roll with it and see where it goes.

Mary Alessi [00:13:46]:
That's right. Well, I wanna say this to you, Allison, because what I love about what Stephanie said is God gives you guys you and Manny such big ideas, that are almost too big for you to carry. That's always the image of a the best god idea because it brings other people into the picture. God won't give us great ideas. We have good ideas that the lord could give us, but really great lasting ideas usually require others to help come along and help us carry it. Mhmm. Because that's how God is. He's about people.

Mary Alessi [00:14:16]:
And we're privileged and honored to be able to do it because we've seen you, develop this. It's been your baby.

Alison Delamota [00:14:25]:
Yeah. Yeah.

Mary Alessi [00:14:25]:
It it's been laborious. You brought into this world, and it will always be your baby. We're just grateful that we have an opportunity to come along and help you carry this giant baby, it takes some of that load off for you, but you're always a part of it. And I want the listeners that are, you know, your listeners to know you are right there.

Alison Delamota [00:14:48]:
Yeah.

Mary Alessi [00:14:48]:
We're we're just now joining along with you to help you take this further and to be able to maintain it. But I also wanna say, you are in a healing process. Yeah. You are. You're going to heal, and you're gonna start getting revived again. Yeah. And your heart will start feeling ready to jump back in this podcast booth and do what God's called you to do. That is going to happen and you'll come through with a newfound revelation on what healing really looks like.

Alison Delamota [00:15:19]:
Yeah.

Mary Alessi [00:15:20]:
And it's just such a beautiful picture to not know before you walk it out because I think sometimes we wanna know how is this gonna end and then I'll walk it out. I am a person that now at this season of my life, I won't watch a movie unless I look up the ending. I just won't. I don't wanna be caught off guard. There's too many unknowns. But in God and in the journey that he has for us, part of the experience, the power of it is to walk into, lord, I don't know. I can't do this on my own. I've done it up to this point.

Mary Alessi [00:15:49]:
But I have to trust you here and just have blind faith. And I I just wanna encourage you to know that this is a this is not a stepping off place. This is a stepping on place at a new level that you've only dreamt about, but the Bible says that he dreams bigger than we do. Yeah. Because he thinks bigger than we do. We don't even have the capacity to think or dream, imagine or hope the way that God thinks and has for us.

Alison Delamota [00:16:20]:
Yeah.

Mary Alessi [00:16:21]:
So I I wanna encourage you in that because you are like our daughter. You're daughter of the house and we're all in this together, that the family business the reason it's everybody's business is because at Metro Life Church in our church, we really are we see our church like a family.

Alison Delamota [00:16:36]:
Yeah.

Mary Alessi [00:16:36]:
We're not a megachurch. We're never gonna be a megachurch. We don't want ever. That's almost an insult to us. The church is a nice big size, but we work very hard to keep a family atmosphere in our church.

Alison Delamota [00:16:47]:
Yeah.

Mary Alessi [00:16:48]:
And you are you and Manny are part of that family.

Alison Delamota [00:16:51]:
Yeah.

Mary Alessi [00:16:51]:
And so as your spiritual mother, I will just say this to you, You are healing. Yeah. And you'll come back into this with an even greater sense of understanding of the power of God and his ability to heal you from something that you really just wish you could just get off the world. Mhmm. Because I I just I I can't this is just too much for me. And it is too much for you, but you will heal.

Stephanie Muiña [00:17:14]:
Mhmm.

Mary Alessi [00:17:14]:
Yeah. What's that song, Your Heart Starts Beating Again? I think there's a song out there. Dance again. You will dance again. Your tears will dry, you know. And you're in that process. But in that process, you could have squandered this whole thing and lost all those followers, and nobody would have blamed you because you could have let emotions and feelings take over. But what does this show? The time you've spent even 5 minutes with God, leading people to spend 5 minutes with God has grown you to a place of understanding and maturity that you're not willing to to squander it.

Stephanie Muiña [00:17:44]:
Yeah.

Mary Alessi [00:17:44]:
You're gonna do the wise counsel thing.

Stephanie Muiña [00:17:47]:
Yeah.

Mary Alessi [00:17:47]:
You're gonna say, let's build a team.

Alison Delamota [00:17:49]:
Yeah.

Mary Alessi [00:17:50]:
I would love some help. Come around me so that this does not get lost. Too much has happened in your life. Too many incredible good seeds have been sown through this. People's lives have been touched, and we're not gonna let this drop off.

Alison Delamota [00:18:03]:
Yeah. Thank you. I really appreciate it. I mean, it's it's such a large audience, and people who didn't wanna get married got married. Yeah. People who didn't know how they were gonna handle a single motherhood or handling single mother.

Mary Alessi [00:18:16]:
Incredible.

Alison Delamota [00:18:17]:
And there are so many different people, and it was it felt so heavy. And you're right. God surrounds you with people. This is it was always about him, and I knew it was a god thing. Because if you look at, like, my personal following, 3,500 followers, how does that lead to 2,600,000?

Stephanie Muiña [00:18:33]:
Right. It's crazy.

Alison Delamota [00:18:34]:
You know? And and that and the stories that come from it, the stories that I hear from other people, they and we all need that daily connection. And I'm just so grateful again that we get to continue this on. They might not hear from me every day. They're gonna hear from new voices they already know.

Mary Alessi [00:18:52]:
That's right.

Alison Delamota [00:18:52]:
Great feedback. And this is just 2 families coming together.

Stephanie Muiña [00:18:56]:
Yeah. Yeah.

Alison Delamota [00:18:57]:
And just an extension of our Metro life digitally.

Stephanie Muiña [00:19:01]:
And I wanna ask you for your audience to know your heart. Why us?

Mary Alessi [00:19:08]:
Why us?

Stephanie Muiña [00:19:09]:
Good question. What is it that you want your your digital family to learn from us?

Alison Delamota [00:19:14]:
What you guys have taught me. They know, about my father's addiction. They again, it's an it's a daily thing. So when I would show up at night, if something had happened at home or if I had to, you know, show up somewhere to go get my father, if I had to come home crying that day, they heard that. You know? So they've been with me for so long. They know that a Metro Life member helped me get him help.

Mary Alessi [00:19:40]:
That's right.

Alison Delamota [00:19:41]:
And he's in a rehab facility and actually just got a part time job there. He finished his program. He's gonna stay there because a MetroLifer helped. Metro. Is family. They know pastor Chris married Manny and I in the backyard and then again at the wedding. Yeah.

Stephanie Muiña [00:19:55]:
Yeah. Yeah.

Alison Delamota [00:19:56]:
They know that the day of the miscarriage, you were there. Yeah. And you guys are family. This is my church family. You guys are my community. My mom lives in Nashville, so I have women here at church that surround me and help me and mentor me when my mom is not physically present.

Mary Alessi [00:20:12]:
That's right.

Alison Delamota [00:20:13]:
And it's it's something that's an extension of my of my life, me and Manny. Manny is the man he is today because men in this church have sharpened him.

Mary Alessi [00:20:23]:
Yeah.

Alison Delamota [00:20:23]:
He doesn't have a a relationship with his father, but he has Jonathan Roman. He has people he can call at any given moment. Does. And, you know, right now, we're going through water damage at the house. We didn't know what to do. And every single contractor, electrician, person who's helping us comes from this church. It's

Mary Alessi [00:20:39]:
crazy. Amazing. It's

Stephanie Muiña [00:20:41]:
just crazy.

Alison Delamota [00:20:42]:
It's so it's amazing. It's a huge community. And then my personal family is also here. My sister and her husband are here,

Stephanie Muiña [00:20:48]:
and That's right.

Alison Delamota [00:20:49]:
It's just an extension. So that's why. Because they know me. I think that a lot of my audience stuck around because they got to know me as a person, and who I am as a person has a lot to do with who you guys are as people.

Mary Alessi [00:21:02]:
Yeah. Well, we love hearing you say that.

Stephanie Muiña [00:21:04]:
That's amazing.

Mary Alessi [00:21:05]:
Again, this is this is reality. The beautiful thing about us doing this is this isn't lip service for any of us. We're not crossing our fingers and making promises and hope it's hopes it work hope it works out. We really genuinely are, all of us, what you see is what you get. Yeah. Like, we truly are family that I can say in, you know, my past experiences with certain ministries and churches. There's a lot of talk of that of that. Oh, that's my family.

Mary Alessi [00:21:36]:
But when it when the rubber hits the road, when it really you put the microscope on it, they're not, you know. But at Metro Life Church, we really truly are. And you just spoke to that. That's the testimony that that ministers to me because it doesn't do pastor Steve and I any good to talk family if we're not walking family. Yeah. Where we really are there for one another. And we go back to your devotional for a minute. How can you be there for two point 6,000,000 people? Well, you can.

Mary Alessi [00:22:06]:
It might be in 5 minutes, but it might just be enough to help another young mom who's going through the same miscarriage. You've already experienced this

Stephanie Muiña [00:22:14]:
Yeah.

Mary Alessi [00:22:14]:
Or a couple that's going through a divorce. The the beautiful part of this these podcasts, all that we do is they are powerful outreaches.

Stephanie Muiña [00:22:22]:
Yeah.

Mary Alessi [00:22:22]:
They're incredible evangelistic tools to help people get through life.

Alison Delamota [00:22:26]:
Yeah.

Mary Alessi [00:22:27]:
You know, people go, well, you know, our podcast, is it a Christian podcast? Is it not? Well, let's put it this way. It's a podcast where all of us are believers. We are all Christians. We can't hide the fact that we live by God's word Yeah. Because it's oozing out of us that all the wisdom we have and the knowledge we have and the peace we have and the hope we have does not come from us. That comes from a foundation in God's word. So we might not say, well, this is a Christian devotional podcast from the Alessi Business Podcast. But this is a devotional

Alison Delamota [00:22:59]:
Yeah. Yeah.

Mary Alessi [00:23:00]:
That we can lead even our listeners to

Stephanie Muiña [00:23:02]:
Yeah.

Mary Alessi [00:23:03]:
That are hungry for more, and they're saying, listen. Introduce me to that Jesus thing or help me understand how do I map out my journey in in faith. We'll start with 5 minutes every day. Here's an incredible podcast. Yeah. You know? That is the part of it that just brings it all together in that family example that it really does give God the most glory.

Alison Delamota [00:23:24]:
Yeah.

Mary Alessi [00:23:24]:
Because his prayer is I pray that you are 1 as we are 1. Yeah. So there's so much, power in this. The I'm using all these terms, the synergy and, you know, all of that, but it is potentially set up for exponential resource growth

Alison Delamota [00:23:39]:
Yeah.

Mary Alessi [00:23:39]:
And and help for people Yeah. In this space.

Stephanie Muiña [00:23:42]:
And if you are an extension of us, of Metro Life Church, then that means that 2,600,000 people want what Metro Life Church is is giving.

Alison Delamota [00:23:53]:
Yeah. Right.

Stephanie Muiña [00:23:54]:
And I love that you were the one to make that connection. You were the bridge between those that number all those people out there, all those single moms, all of those single girls, all of those 5 men that 10%. 10%. The 10% of the men, they want what Metro Life Church gives out, and we want millions of people to receive what we have to give out. That's right. Because we know it's tried and true. Like, our church has stood the test of time. The relationships have has stood the test of time.

Stephanie Muiña [00:24:25]:
The infrastructure has stood the test of time. We want pure we we just wanna walk in a pure relationship with God and each other and each other. That's what we want, and we wanted to be we wanna live it out with honesty. We want we wanna live it out with righteousness, and we wanna live it out with loyalty, and it works for us.

Mary Alessi [00:24:45]:
Yeah.

Stephanie Muiña [00:24:45]:
So we've always had this drive. How do we show the world Metro Life Church? How could we do it? That's why we do music. That's why we've written these books, But that's been our prayer for the past couple years. We know what we have is gold to the world right now. How do we get it out there? Then Allison

Alison Delamota [00:25:02]:
Yes.

Stephanie Muiña [00:25:02]:
Dela Motta comes around and gives us this podcast, so this is a blessing. I feel like this is a beautiful bridge for so many people out there.

Alison Delamota [00:25:10]:
I agree. It's a daily dose of heaven. That's the slogan.

Mary Alessi [00:25:13]:
That's awesome. A daily dose of heaven. Well, we did not have the timer on, so we're not sure if we went over, if we went under, but it's all good. I think we're right on time. I'm getting the thumbs up from the booth. Allison, thank you, first of all, for entrusting us with this. We didn't just jump in with both feet without thinking about it, processing it, praying about it, and really looking through the lens of should we, can we? Because we would never ever wanna take what you built and not give it the very best that it deserves. So, we're excited.

Mary Alessi [00:25:46]:
I'm excited for our listeners to have this vehicle and this opportunity, and I'm excited for your listeners to be introduced to the family business podcast. With you, Alessis, listen. Join in. If you're out there and you love this incredible podcast you've been doing, the daily devotionals, We invite you to take a listen to our family business podcast as well because, that's growing too, and we're excited about it. Well, is that it? Did we say it all? Allison, you wanna say anything else

Alison Delamota [00:26:11]:
before we go? No. Just thank you again. Awesome. And, I know that the audience is gonna it's a twofold. They get an extension of a family as well.

Mary Alessi [00:26:20]:
I love that. Extension of a family. That's what we wanna be to you. Mhmm. So thank you for listening to another episode with the family business, with the Alessis, I can say it right, where we can't talk about everything we want to on Sunday, so we get in this booth and we talk about it because family is every body's business. Have a great day, guys.

Stephanie Muiña [00:26:38]:
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Stephanie Muiña [00:27:19]:
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